To your last point, yes. The average user doesn’t even glance at the permissions before blindly accepting them. It is also true that an alarmingly high number of users/consumers /don’t care/ about basic privacy concerns that affect things like targeted ads, PII, and information that could be used to affect things like credit score.
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tweeks@feddit.nl 10 months agoThat’s true, although I believe you still have to give permission to an app to use this (at least on Android). Not to say that people won’t accept things way too fast.
Railing5132@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ADTJ@feddit.uk 10 months ago
The enhanced permission api was a huge step forward but plenty of apps still just demand permissions up front and lock you out until you grant them